BY: Vuyo Cebekhulu
Police on the hunt for armed men who are still on the run for killing three people in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday, 08 April 2024.
The armed men stormed homes in Mpunzi Road in Inanda and shot dead three people on Tuesday. Three people were shot, and one person escaped unharmed when the gunmen were storming in people’s homes.
KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson colonel Robert Netshiunda said a search is underway for the suspects who opened fire on residents in Mpunzi Road in Nhlungwane area in Inanda in the early hours.
“Police found two bodies, a man believed to be in his early 40’s and a 24-year-old woman, on the road with multiple gunshot wounds. They were declared dead at the scene,” said colonel Netshiunda.
“They found a body of a man, believed to be about 50 years old, inside his cottage room with gunshot wounds. His neighbor was shot but survived.” Netshiunda continued.
“Information at this stage suggests an unknown number of suspects shot a man and woman and proceeded to the nearby houses where they demanded for the minibus taxi from the female occupants in the house. Females escaped unharmed and the armed men took the spare keys for the minibus taxi.”
The same suspects are believed to have continued storming cottages down the road, where they shot the third victim and took the original keys of the minibus taxi and drove off. The minibus taxi was found abonded around Ntuzuma Area.
Colonel Robert Netshiunda said on Monday evening a man was shot and killed a few meters from where the man and woman were killed. It is not clear if the murder is linked to the triple murder.
Police in KwaZulu-Natal have launched a manhunt for the unknown number of suspects who shot and killed three people and attempted to kill another at Nhlungwane area in Inanda in the early hours of Tuesday, 16 April 2024.
